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What is the idea of Nietzsche of a good life?
For Nietzsche, the good life is one lived without fear: without fear of gods or a Higher Power; without fear of the crowd and its constant desire to make you conform; and even without fear of one’s fate. This is what he meant by “amor fati” (love your fate): Never whine, never complain, never explain.
Why you should read Nietzsche?
Nietzsche is one of the most difficult thinkers in the Western canon to think through. Firstly, Nietzsche draws our attention to the historical contingency of many of our moral conceits. This is perhaps best accomplished in the On the Genealogy of Morals and the short books Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist.
What’s Nietzsche’s philosophy?
Nietzsche’s moral philosophy is primarily critical in orientation: he attacks morality both for its commitment to untenable descriptive (metaphysical and empirical) claims about human agency, as well as for the deleterious impact of its distinctive norms and values on the flourishing of the highest types of human …
Who did Nietzsche learn from?
Nietzsche’s enthusiasm for Schopenhauer, his studies in classical philology, his inspiration from Wagner, his reading of Lange, his interests in health, his professional need to prove himself as a young academic, and his frustration with the contemporary German culture, all coalesced in his first book—The Birth of …
What is the meaning of life according to Nietzsche?
Values and customs that were once considered eternal have crumbled over time. Nietzsche believed that the “meaning” of life is to be found within ourselves. (Painting: Caspar David Friedrich ‘The Temple of Juno in Agrigento’). (Public domain.
What was Nietzsche’s final straw that killed him?
Nietzsche had lived with a number of health problems, mental health issues, and post-traumatic stress syndrome from serving as a medical orderly in the Franco-Prussian War (during which he had also contracted diphtheria and dysentery). The final straw was that the woman he loved deeply, whom he had proposed to a number of times, had abandoned him.
What is Nietzsche’s view on race?
Nietzsche believed that obsession with shaky concepts like “nations” and “races” prevents the individual from finding their higher selves. This is an important point: Nietzsche didn’t believe that racism and nationalism, for example, were morally “evil”.
What is Nietzsche’s “Übermensch”?
In the place of those doctrines Nietzsche developed his own doctrines that serve as a toolkit for people who seek to become what the philosopher called the “Übermensch” – “overman” – those who have mastery over their emotions, who take joy in simply existing and who create above all else.